We had a great showing at competition this year, placing in the top half for the first time in the schools history! Specifically, we placed 58th out of 120 University teams from all around the world! Highlights include:

6th place in design drawings

30th place in the marketing presentation event

34th place in the skidpad event

33rd place in the autocross event

Official scores can be found here:  http://www.sae.org/students/fsae2012result.pdf

We were on track for a top third finish with the car performing extremely well, unfortunately part of the bodywork tore off when a cone was hit during the endurance race and they would not allow us to remove it. There is only one shot at the endurance race and it is worth 450 out of 1000 points so this hurt our overall score.

Aside from this, a lot of interest was shown in our car and all of the event organizers and judges were very impressed with the overall integration of components and the clean look. We were told many times that we had a really nice looking car.

Here are a few more pictures from competition (I will upload more pictures and videos once they are all compiled):

Fueling up with Duke in the background:

Getting tested for noise (had to be below 110 dB). With a few adjustments we passed with 108 dB:

Once again, thank you to all of our sponsors. We did our best to represent you well at competition and will continue to promote all of you throughout autocross races in the summer and University events!